Book Review: The Chelsea Girl Murders

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

The Chelsea Girl Murders     Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Sparkle Hayter
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Humorous
Series: Robin Hudson # 5
Morrow, May 2000, $23.00, 356 pp.

In the Big Apple, Robin Hudson is a forty-one year old power player who heads programming for the Worldwide Women’s Network. She travels to more countries in a month than most families visit in their lifetimes. A fire forces Robin and her cat Louise Bryant to leave their East Village apartment. They move into a friend’s apartment at SOHO’s Chelsea Hotel.

Robin has no time to mourn her loss of possessions. Instead, she immediately becomes involved with the problems of two eloping teenagers who are running from their menacing families. Dangerous looking thugs seem to line up the streets chasing after the runaways. Robin vows to keep them safe, not yet realizing the risk she will take for this wonderful cause.

Robin is an interesting person who many readers will admire because she has a quirky charm that is beguiling. The entertaining heroine is zany, hip, quirky, and most important in this age of the disposable friendship, loyal. The story line is unusual, at times surreal, but always enjoyable as Robin co-stars with New York in the offbeat THE CHELSEA GIRL MURDERS. Sparkle Hayter lives up to her first name with this sparkling story that will appeal to urban amateur sleuth fans.

Harriet Klausner

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